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Garbage
Summary: A term paper on the effects of garbage and types of garbage and how to prevent it.
Most people toss their garbage into dumpsters and down their garbage chutes of to the streets, into parks, drains and the dirt. People haul their used furniture, bikes, old toys, and battered car parts to their city dump without a clue of where it goes and what happens to it. People need to pay more attention to what they do with their garbage that is produced each day. An average of 3.6 pound of garbage is produced a day per household and 1,300 pounds a year. One can only imagine how much that is in a year; it is, in fact, 160 million tons of garbage. That is enough to fill a convoy of 10 tons garbage trucks, 232,000 kilometres long. When people drop their trash on the street, toss litter out their car windows, threw their garbage into lakes or rivers, they are polluting the cites, the countryside and water ways of...
This section contains 5,161 words (approx. 18 pages at 300 words per page) |
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